Restaurant Associates Events Corp., Levy Restaurants, Inc. - US Open
ABBEY SPANIER RODD & ABRAMS, LLP FILES CLASS ACTION ON BEHALF OF LUXURY SUITE ATTENDANTS AT THE US OPEN
Abbey Spanier Rodd & Abrams, LLP and the Law Offices of Mitchell Schley, LLC has filed a class action and collective action on behalf of employees who worked as suite attendants at New York's marquee tennis tournament, the US Open. The case was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Case No. 10 Civ. 0935).
The complaint alleges that that during the US Open tennis tournaments held from 2004-2009 defendants violated federal and state wage and hour laws by failing to pay all wages due including overtime to suite attendants who worked over 100 hours each week during the tournaments. The complaint further alleges that defendants improperly kept gratuities in the form of a 21% service charge paid by suite customers on all catered food and beverages. Defendants' handling of the gratuities violated the New York Labor law as interpreted by New York's highest court in Samiento v. World Yacht Inc., in 2008.
Defendants include Restaurant Associates Events Corp., Levy Restaurants, Inc., Amerivents, JKDella Sales Dimensions, Inc., Scott Frain and James Della Pace.
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